The Influence of Chuck Berry on Rock and Roll Music

Maybelline would be the start of a run of singles that is unparalleled for its influence on rock and roll music. Chuck Berry isn't the only credited songwriter, but separately he may not have been the song's only writer. After they stopped working together, Johnny Johnson started to claim that he deserved co-writing credit for everything that was credited to Berry on his own. But while Freed and Frato took unearned credit for the song, it's at least arguable that so didBerry.